Tomorrow Betty Windsor is set to become the longest-reigning British moochocrat & the oldest living corpse. There’s no way in hell I won’t commemorate that ignoble event. But every time I post on Betty there are people who take umbrage–some because it’s not serious enough, others because they think I ridicule.

Let me assure you, I take feudalism very seriously indeed. Nothing fries me more than indolent sloths feeding off public health & education. As for ridicule, truth-telling about moochocracy only seems mockery. There’s really no need for embellishment.

And let me just insist, satire is the genre of the oppressed. Granted, to call my writings satire is an elastic definition but can we settle on sarcasm then if satire is beyond my reach